airily

1. 1.

   in a flippant manner

   “he answered the reporters' questions flippantly”

   “this cannot be airily explained to your children”

   Synonymsflippantly

Questions about airily

What does airily mean?

airily means "in a flippant manner".

How many syllables are in airily?

airily has 3 syllables: ai-ri-ly. The stress falls on "ai".

What is another word for airily?

Close synonyms include flippantly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is airily a common word?

airily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.